Yes! That scope is great for widefield astrophotography with your DSLR.
But you need a mount to put it on. What mount were you thinking of? You'll want at least a HEQ5 or EQ6 if you're serious. You *may* be able to get away with an EQ5.
Oh I didn't see the link.. i'm not sure what the skyview pro mount is.. If you get a solid mount like an EQ6 or G8/G11, you can mount a big 8-10" newt or SCT on it later.
Hi Trevor, know you don't need Skyscan but If you don't want to waist time looking for DSO to image , go the Skyscan or some form of digital setting circles .
The ED80 makes for a good imaging scope and at that price you can't go wrong .
Funny you should ask that Trevor. I finally managed to get out last night and took this image of ngc253 last night with my Orion 80ED and canon 300D. Seeing about 4/10 transparency about the same (lotta smoke haze around at the moment) Nothing fancy with the processing, just registax, darked and levels and curves and cropped
The 80ED is a great little scope for basic imaging with your 350D.
The mount you mention ( skyview pro) is not really up to long exposure imaging. Like the guys have said, get a mount that is more substantial that way you can add another scope on to it later as you may outgrow the 80ED.
Hope that helps you.
The other thing you can do is take multipule shorter exposures (ie. 30 sec each - like the ones itchy does and then stack them. This way you are avoiding the tracking errors associated with long exposures on basic mounts like this one)
I am keen on imaging the Milky Way, as it's an easy target and i can view it easy and comfortable from my back yard.
I think the eq6 will be the mount i will get for this scope, i was thinking of piggybacking the 350 with my 10-22mm for widefield shots of the milky way, and at prime for deeper objects.
What would be a good diagonal to get, and also what exactly would i need as in piggyback adapters/camera adapters etc.
The ED80 is awesome for astro imaging. I would suggest you save a little bit extra and get it as a package with the new HEQ5 Mount that comes with Skyscan and higher quality worm gears.
As an example of the image quality, I took this with my 300D DSLR and ED80 last year.
don't do that to me chris! my pulse can't take the pressure at this time of the morning.
wow, i am very happy, i have just seen the running man.! THANKS
any other little gems you have floating around.....actually no answer, just throw them in whilst in general conversation.
"...yes the m33 is quite nice and is a bit low, the dork smith $5 scope is quite fine... thats right, here is my 5 hour unguided, 10 degree x 10 degree image taken with the dork smith scope taken a few years back....."
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but this is the cost of halfway serious astrophotography. As a visual scope, I wouldnt want such a small scope as my only scope.
I should have bought that mount of yours Chris, oh well thems the breaks.
